NH22A:
Extreme Sea Levels and Coastal Risks in a Changing Climate I

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Session ID#: 14842

Session Description:
Coastal flooding can have devastating impacts with wide ranging social, economic, and environmental consequences. Recent significant events, like Cyclone Xynthia on the French Atlantic coast, Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey, Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, Cyclone Xaver in the North Sea, and Tropical Cyclone Winston in Fiji have dramatically emphasized the vulnerability of low-lying densely populated coastlines. In order to plan effective adaptation to coastal flooding hazards it is essential to improve understanding of extreme sea level and wave events and the associated impacts, exploiting both observational and modeling data sets. This session seeks contributions from studies that have: examined changes in extreme sea levels and waves including the role of climate change and variability; undertaken statistical analyses of extreme water levels; assessed the various types of impacts (e.g., inundation, erosion, ecosystem degradation); or taken an integrated approach toward analyzing the vulnerability of complex coastal systems to extreme sea levels.
Primary Convener:  Thomas Wahl, University of Central Florida, Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering & National Center for Integrated Coastal Research, Orlando, United States; University of Southampton, Engineering and the Envrionment, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Ivan David Haigh, University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom, Peter Ruggiero, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States and William Sweet, NOAA National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, United States
Chairs:  Peter Ruggiero, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States and Thomas Wahl, University of Central Florida, Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering & National Center for Integrated Coastal Research, Orlando, United States; University of Southampton, Engineering and the Envrionment, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaison:  Thomas Wahl, University of Central Florida, Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering & National Center for Integrated Coastal Research, Orlando, United States; University of Southampton, Engineering and the Envrionment, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom
Co-Organized with:
Ocean Sciences, and Ocean Sciences

Cross-Listed:
  • OS - Ocean Sciences

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

1641 Sea level change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4313 Extreme events [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4328 Risk [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4546 Nearshore processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A new global dataset with extreme sea levels and its application to assessing flood risk (Invited) (117481)
Sanne Muis, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Skew Surge: Separating the Risks of Storm Surge and High Tides. (119412)
Joanne Williams, National Oceanography Center, Liverpool, United Kingdom and Kevin Horsburgh, Green Climate Fund, Incheon, South Korea
A Two-Step Method to Select Major Surge-Producing Extratropical Cyclones from a 10,000-Year Stochastic Catalog (161518)
Mohammad Keshtpoor1, Iacopo Carnacina2 and Richard M Yablonsky1, (1)AIR Worldwide Boston, Boston, MA, United States, (2)AIR Worldwide London - AIR, London, United Kingdom
Ensemble tropical-extratropical cyclone coastal flood hazard assessment with climate change (190767)
Philip M Orton, Stevens Institute of Technology, Department of Civil, Environmental & Ocean Engineering, Union City, NJ, United States, Ning Lin, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States and Brian Colle, Stony Brook University, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook, NY, United States
Amplification of flood frequencies with local sea-level rise and emerging flood regimes (162745)
Maya K Buchanan, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Robert E Kopp, Rutgers University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Brunswick, United States and Michael Oppenheimer, Princeton University, School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton, NJ, United States
Coastal-storm Inundation and Sea-level Rise in New Zealand Scott A. Stephens and Rob Bell (186957)
Scott A. Stephens and Robert Bell, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Hamilton, New Zealand
Coastal Nuisance Flooding Caused by Astronomical Tides Alone: Some Case Studies (162384)
Richard D Ray, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Coastal hazards along the U.S. West Coast during the 2015-16 El Niño (138362)
Patrick Barnard1, Daniel Hoover2, David M Hubbard3, Alex Snyder1, Bonnie C Ludka4, Jonathan C Allan5, George M Kaminsky6, Peter Ruggiero7, Timu Gallien8, Laura Gabel9, Diana McCandless10, Heather M Weiner10, Nicholas Cohn7, Dylan Lawrence Anderson11 and Katherine Serafin7, (1)USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, United States, (3)University of California Santa Barbara, Marine Science Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (4)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (5)Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, Portland, OR, United States, (6)Washington State Department of Ecology, Olympia, United States, (7)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (8)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (9)Oregon Dept of Geology, Newport, OR, United States, (10)Department of Ecology State of Washington, Olympia, WA, United States, (11)U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Corvallis, United States

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